Eran-asan-kerd-Kawad
Eran-asan-kerd-Kawad or Iran asan kar(t) Kavad (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭩𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭠𐭮𐭠𐭭𐭪𐭫𐭪𐭥𐭠𐭲 ʾylʾnʾsʾnklkwʾt,[1] meaning "Kavad [has] made Ērān peaceful") was a Sasanian city founded by Kavad I (r. 488–496, 498–531) in the Hulwan region.[2] It was the capital of a province possibly identical to the Hulwan region and bordering the provinces of Syarazur (Shahrizor) and Garamig.[3] The geographer Josef Markwart placed the city between Adiabene and Garamig. It is mentioned in both Armenian sources and the Middle Persian Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr ("Provincial Capitals of Ērān").[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Gyselen, Rika (2007). Sasanian Seals and Sealings in the A. Saeedi Collection. Peeters Publishers. p. 138. ISBN 978-90-429-1268-7.
- ^ a b Daryaee 2002, p. 55.
- ^ Gyselen 1998.
Sources[edit]
- Daryaee, Touraj, ed. (2002). Šahrestānīhā Ī Ērānšahr: A Middle Persian Text on Late Antique Geography, Epic, and History. Mazda Publishers.
- Frye, R. N. (1983), "The political history of Iran under the Sasanians", in Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.), The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian periods, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, p. 136, ISBN 978-0-521-20092-9
- Gyselen, Rika (1998). "ĒRĀN-ĀSĀN-KERD-KAWĀD". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume VIII/5: English IV–Eršād al-zerāʿa. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 536. ISBN 978-1-56859-054-7.
- Yarshater, Ehsan, ed. (1983), The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian periods, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1108, 1437, ISBN 978-0521246934